Germany in War Time: What an American Girl Saw and Heard

The author records two years spent in Germany during the Great War, offering firsthand observations of civilian life under military rule and scarcity. She describes travel restrictions and searches, food and clothing rationing and inventive substitutes, women's expanded labor roles, soldiers' visibility, wartime amusements, censorship and precautions against spies, charitable and medical efforts for the wounded, conditions of prisoners, and urban and industrial scenes from Berlin to Hamburg, Munich, and Vienna. The narrative also notes how foreigners were treated and practical adaptations to shortages in daily routines.